fix(tagwriter): declare the track and disc totals when tagging
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An album the user holds 2 of 10 tracks of showed a green tick reading
"is in your library", and the mechanism was our own writer. tagwriter
wrote track and disc *numbers* and dropped the totals, so autotagging a
folder made the release MBID-matched -- which is what earns the tick --
while erasing the one field GetAlbumCompleteness reads. The evidence
for "2 of 10" was destroyed by the act that produced the tick.

FieldTotalTracks and FieldTotalDiscs are written as the ID3 "n/N" form
and as Vorbis TRACKTOTAL/DISCTOTAL; the autotag apply pass and the
download importer fill them from the release's own tracklist; and
dbsync persists the track total to audio_files.total_tracks so the
album page agrees with the file without waiting for a rescan.

Five things about it are load-bearing, and four fail silently:

- The total is per *disc*, not per release, because that is what the
  tag form declares and what GetAlbumCompleteness sums per disc. A
  release total on every file multiplies a two-disc album's expectation
  by two, which no library can satisfy. backend/tagtotals is that
  derivation once, since the two callers must not import the writer or
  each other.
- The Vorbis names are TRACKTOTAL and DISCTOTAL and no other spelling.
  dhowden/tag reads exactly those two keys, so TOTALTRACKS -- which
  xiph lists and several taggers write -- or a "1/12" packed into
  TRACKNUMBER writes successfully and reads back as no total at all.
  The tests therefore assert the round trip through the reader the scan
  uses, not through the bytes.
- ID3's number and total share one frame, so writing either alone must
  read the other off the existing tag or discard it. A total with no
  number is not written: "/12" parses as track 0.
- The totals are written unconditionally rather than on a diff. The
  case this exists for is a file declaring no total at all, which
  compares equal to nothing and is exactly what a "only if it changed"
  guard skips.
- A single-track download is not totalled. A RecordingMBID anchor
  resolves Expected to that one track, so the same code would tag a
  track off a twelve-track album "1 of 1" -- and a declared total
  outranks the catalog total that would have answered correctly.

autotag's field constants are a second copy of tagwriter's, deliberately
so autotag stays out of the write pipeline's import graph. A key that
drifts neither fails to compile nor fails to write -- the writer simply
finds nothing under the name it looks for -- so autotagservice, the one
package importing both, now pins them.

Steps 2 and 3 of the issue stay open under #38: the catalog fallback
already landed as completenessAnswer(), and the badge call-site audit is
the part that overlaps it.

Closes #16
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A guard added today does not protect a tag that points at yesterday. When
re-pointing a tag, check what the workflows looked like *there*.
## A tag reader looks at exactly one spelling of "total" (measured 2026-08-18)
Writing #16's totals means matching the reader, which is
`dhowden/tag`, and it is narrower than the specs are:
- **Vorbis (FLAC, OGG): `TRACKTOTAL` and `DISCTOTAL` only.**
`vorbis.go`'s `Track()` reads `tracknumber` and `tracktotal` and
nothing else, so `TOTALTRACKS` — which several taggers write and
which xiph lists — and a `1/12` packed into `TRACKNUMBER` both read
back as *no total*. They write successfully. Nothing errors.
- **ID3v2 (MP3): `TRCK`/`TPOS` as `n/N`**, via `parseXofN`. That is one
frame carrying two facts, which is why `applyPositionFrame` reads the
existing frame before writing either half.
- **WAV: nothing at all.** There is no RIFF reader in the module, so a
WAV's `id3 ` chunk is invisible to `metadata.ExtractTags` — every
field, not just the totals. Filed as #104.
The general shape, and the reason this is written down: a tag written
under a name the reader does not look at is indistinguishable from one
never written. So the tests assert the round trip through
`metadata.ExtractTags` — the reader the *scan* uses — rather than
through the bytes the writer produced.